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CUNY PodcastsCUNY’s Transformation SWAT TeamA conversation about CUNY's ambitions for the coming years with Rachel Stevenson and Cathy Davidson of the new Office of Transformation.
2023-12-0726 minCUNY PodcastsCUNY’s Transformation SWAT TeamA conversation about CUNY's ambitions for the coming years with Rachel Stephenson and Cathy N. Davidson of the new Office of Transformation.
2023-12-0726 minCUNY PodcastsTales of the Eng DynastyHow BMCC's Alvin Eng found his soul as an ‘acoustic punk rock raconteur.’
2023-09-1926 minCUNY PodcastsTales of the Eng DynastyHow BMCC's Alvin Eng found his soul as an ‘acoustic punk rock raconteur.’
2023-09-1926 minCUNY PodcastsFor Ava Chin, All Roads Lead to Mott StreetCSI and Graduate Center professor Ava Chin uncovers her family's remarkable history and reveals the deeper history of exclusion that defined the Chinese American experience for a century in "Mott Street."
2023-08-3035 minCUNY PodcastsFor Ava Chin, All Roads Lead to Mott StreetCSI and Graduate Center professor Ava Chin uncovers her family's remarkable history and reveals the deeper history of exclusion that defined the Chinese American experience for a century in "Mott Street."
2023-08-3035 minCUNY PodcastsThe Emergence of Sidik FofanaSidik Fofana, a high school teacher who earned his masters in education at City College, wrote fiction on the side for a decade. He finally got his first book published -- and was awarded a prestigious Whiting Award for Emerging Writers.
2023-06-1429 minCUNY PodcastsThe Emergence of Sidik FofanaSidik Fofana, a high school teacher who earned his masters in education at City College, wrote fiction on the side for a decade. He finally got his first book published -- and was awarded a prestigious Whiting Award for Emerging Writers.
2023-06-1429 minCUNY PodcastsA Young Writer Born of a Forgotten WarCrystal Hana Kim says the Korean War is so deeply ingrained in her family's history--but so remote for Americans today--that it became the driving force for her to become a writer.
2023-02-0120 minCUNY PodcastsA Young Writer Born of a Forgotten WarCrystal Hana Kim says the Korean War is so deeply ingrained in her family's history--but so remote for Americans today--that it became the driving force for her to become a writer.
2023-02-0120 minCUNY PodcastsRyan Martin’s got game. And he’s putting CUNY adaptive sports on the map.Ryan Martin, CUNY's first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, has quickly built a nationally recognized wheelchair basketball program. His focus is on bringing athletes with disabilities to CUNY, but he says it's ultimately not about the game.
2023-01-2823 minCUNY PodcastsRyan Martin’s got game. And he’s putting CUNY adaptive sports on the map.Ryan Martin, CUNY's first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, has quickly built a nationally recognized wheelchair basketball program. His focus is on bringing athletes with disabilities to CUNY, but he says it's ultimately not about the game.
2023-01-2823 minCUNY PodcastsBehind the Closed Doors of a Queens Family StoryQueens College alum Nira Burstein talks about making "Charm Circle," her intensely persona, award-winning documentary about the fractured emotional landscape of her parents' lives in the house in Flushing where Burstein grew up.
2022-10-3118 minCUNY PodcastsBehind the Closed Doors of a Queens Family StoryQueens College alum Nira Burstein talks about making "Charm Circle," her intensely persona, award-winning documentary about the fractured emotional landscape of her parents' lives in the house in Flushing where Burstein grew up.
2022-10-3118 minCUNY PodcastsEp. #7: Diversifying MediaOn this latest episode of CUNY Uncut, Danny Chicon-Ramirez joins Hannah Kavanagh in discussing the importance of proper race representation in media, how the lack thereof perpetuates negative stereotypes and promotes implicit bias—and how those biases in turn impact every facet of our own personal lives. From there, we try to answer this seemingly age-old question: How can we actively deconstruct racial misrepresentation and where do we go from here?
2022-10-2728 minCUNY PodcastsEp. #7: Diversifying MediaOn this latest episode of CUNY Uncut, Danny Chicon-Ramirez joins Hannah Kavanagh in discussing the importance of proper race representation in media, how the lack thereof perpetuates negative stereotypes and promotes implicit bias—and how those biases in turn impact every facet of our own personal lives. From there, we try to answer this seemingly age-old question: How can we actively deconstruct racial misrepresentation and where do we go from here?
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CUNY PodcastsEp. #6: Let’s Talk About Sex (and Burlesque)Alyssa Kitt (GC ’22) joins host Hannah Kavanagh on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how her illustrious burlesque career has shaped her views on body positivity, sexual pleasure, confidence, and desire.
2022-09-2729 minCUNY PodcastsEp. #6: Let’s Talk About Sex (and Burlesque)Alyssa Kitt (GC ’22) joins host Hannah Kavanagh on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how her illustrious burlesque career has shaped her views on body positivity, sexual pleasure, confidence, and desire.
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CUNY PodcastsCrypto 101: The New WaveEmily Portalatin-Mendez (Lehman ’23) appears on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how cryptocurrency and blockchain works, the benefits of investing in it, how Web 3.0 and the metaverse fits into all of this, as well as how different cryptocurrency companies plan on mitigating the environmental and classist issues associated with it—all the while Hannah and the listeners plunge themselves into the unknown.
2022-08-0451 minCUNY PodcastsCrypto 101: The New WaveEmily Portalatin-Mendez (Lehman ’23) appears on this latest episode of CUNY Uncut to discuss how cryptocurrency and blockchain works, the benefits of investing in it, how Web 3.0 and the metaverse fits into all of this, as well as how different cryptocurrency companies plan on mitigating the environmental and classist issues associated with it—all the while Hannah and the listeners plunge themselves into the unknown.
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CUNY PodcastsIntersectional Inclusion and ValidationHanna Yeum (Macaulay @ John Jay ’23) and Kimberly Paredes (John Jay ’22) join Hannah in discussing their experiences dealing with and responding to racial injustice, how CUNY’s response to such acts prompted them to start John Jay’s APISA Club, and what they hope to accomplish through their club’s mission to validate students and ensure that they feel seen.
2022-06-0747 minCUNY PodcastsIntersectional Inclusion and ValidationHanna Yeum (Macaulay @ John Jay ’23) and Kimberly Paredes (John Jay ’22) join Hannah in discussing their experiences dealing with and responding to racial injustice, how CUNY’s response to such acts prompted them to start John Jay’s APISA Club, and what they hope to accomplish through their club’s mission to validate students and ensure that they feel seen.
2022-06-0747 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsWhen Jill Biden Rallied Kingsborough GradsCiting President Obama's intent to strengthen community colleges, "second lady" Jill Biden told the 2009 graduates of Kingsborough Community College the two-year schools are "one of America's best-kept secrets," and "the education gained on campuses like this one will provide the knowledge that will power the 21st century." Dr. Biden, an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College who taught English full-time at a Delaware community college for 16 years, referred to Obama's higher education proposal, which includes a community college initiative to better prepare students for the job market and encourages their transfer to four-year schools. "The president wants the...
2020-09-1410 minBoard of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsMeeting of the CUNY Board of TrusteesMeeting of the Board of Trustees, June 25, 2018.
2018-06-251h 23Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Facilities, Planning and ManagementStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Facilities, Planning and Management, June 04, 2018.
2018-06-0440 minBoard of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Faculty, Staff and AdministrationStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, June 04, 2018.
2018-06-041h 07Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Student Affairs and Special ProgramsStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, June 04, 2018.
2018-06-0436 minBoard of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsMeeting of the CUNY Board of TrusteesMeeting of the Board of Trustees, May 09, 2018.
2018-05-0958 minBoard of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Student Affairs and Special ProgramsStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, April 16, 2018.
2018-04-181h 26Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Fiscal AffairsStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Fiscal Affairs, April 16, 2018.
2018-04-162h 16Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsSubcommittee on InvestmentSubcommittee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Subcommittee on Investment, Monday, April 16, 2018.
2018-04-1614 minBoard of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Faculty, Staff and AdministrationStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, April 16, 2018.
2018-04-1632 minBoard of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Facilities, Planning and ManagementStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Facilities, Planning and Management, April 16, 2018.
2018-04-1621 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsSpine-Tingling Research“The brain has to talk to the spinal cord in order to make any kind of movement,” says Jack Martin, medical professor at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York, “so after a spinal-cord injury, those connections become impaired. That results in a reduced ability to make the kinds of movements we are accustomed to,” says Martin. To help change that, the New York State Department of Health awarded Martin a $4.27 million grant to look into brain development and the recovery of movement function after brain or spinal injury. The grant brings his research awards since Octo...
2017-05-0401 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsBrain Teaser“I personally am very excited about this idea of brain decoding, this idea that we can measure brain activity and figure out where your thoughts are,” says Lucas Parra, professor of biomedical engineering at CCNY. “I work in the lab with electroencephalography. It records electric brain signals … how we perceive sound, images … speech. We’re looking at what happens when you’re watching movies or when you’re playing video games,” Parra says. “We get a sense of are people engaged, are they paying attention, will they remember what they saw weeks later. … Different modalities allow you to analyze different kinds of neuro process...
2017-04-2001 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsGardens Yes, Nitro No“There’s a big movement … to change what people do in their yards,” says Peter Groffman, ecosystems professor at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, referring to the use of lawn fertilizer. Fertilizer contains nutrients like nitrogen which washes into waterways, hurting aquatic life. Flower-growing homeowners’ habits may change, Groffman says, if they can keep “the benefits” of having a lawn.
2016-12-2801 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsMinority Participation Not ImmaterialMaterials science research needs more minority students and teachers, says City College Chemistry Professor Maria Tamargo, who with colleagues won a $5 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to create a center to diversify the field of discovering and designing new materials. Recruiting and preparing diverse students and creating a master’s program are part of the strategy to bring more minority students to CUNY’s Ph.D. programs.
2016-11-2200 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsSex and the Single Mole RatThe difference between a human and a naked mole rat? Genetically, not much, says College of Staten Island Associate Professor Dan McCloskey, whose focus is social neuroscience. Thirty-five million years ago mole rats started to burrow underground, leading to a social system in which a queen did most of the breeding and the rest of the animals worked. “Re-creating a day in the life” of these mole rats can teach us more about humans and the brain, McCloskey says.
2016-11-2100 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesIn his report to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor James B. Milliken commented on several budgetary matters, including the University’s annual budget request and a first time, 4-year financial plan. Designed to support the University’s 4-year master plan, Chancellor Milliken said this year’s budget request “reflects our priorities for educating hundreds of thousand of students—supporting their success and helping them launch the careers that will uplift their families in the city and state.”
The Chancellor also updated the Board on new leadership for City College and said he expects the appointment of an interim president, “to happen in the...
2016-10-2606 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsGrease Is the WordNobody seems to like brown grease, but if you heat it up enough, you’ve got something, says Medgar Evers College assistant chemistry professor Lawrence Pratt: an alternative source of fuel. “Someday petroleum will run out,” he says, and food waste heated to 350 celsius and above is a potential replacement. “We can’t continually rely only on fossil fuels.” Pratt and his compatriots at Medgar Evers College experiment with heated brown food grease. “This stuff does not come from coal, petroleum or natural gas,” says Pratt. “It comes from waste. We need energy from algae. We need solar, we need wind,” he says.
2016-10-2501 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsGive Him Some SpaceKim Kardashian may have broken the internet, but Lehman assistant astrophysics professor Matt O’Dowd has given a digital performance of The Quantum Experiment That Broke Reality. O’Dowd is the host of the PBS digital series Space Time, which has covered other scientific topics including Is an Ice Age Coming? and Why Haven’t We Found Alien Life? O’Dowd has a particular interest in using the Hubble Space Telescope to research black holes, which he calls some of this universe’s most important but least understood phenomena.
2016-10-2401 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsGet That Healthy GlowShining a certain kind of light on body tissue produces a glow that shows changes in the tissue, including cancer. The use of such biomedical optics will some day be able “to detect disease directly without taking tissue from the body,” says Robert R. Alfano, a distinguished professor of science and engineering at City College. “It’s sort of like ‘Star Trek,’ ” he says. “They scan your body, and you can get information directly.”
2016-10-2101 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsDainty RobotBaruch associate biology professor David Gruber was at a National Geographic Explorers meeting showing video of deep sea coral reef research when a fellow Explorer wondered if he had heard of soft robotics and whether that tool could be used in Gruber’s work. “There’s no biologist who’s using squishy robot fingers to go underwater,” Gruber says. He changed that by trying out the technology during a weeklong expedition on reefs deep in the Red Sea using Baruch’s remotely operated submarine. With the soft robotics, one can “work delicately with deep coral reef organisms,” Gruber says. And who knew Baruch
2016-10-2001 minScience Briefs – CUNY PodcastsBoom Box“People that want to do us harm can hide dirty bombs inside cargo containers and try to get past security,” says York College physics professor Kevin Lynch. He and fellow York physics professor James Popp are trying to keep that bomb from going off — on the relative cheap. The two professors are using a $300,00 grant from the Air Force to use “off the shelf equipment” and electronics developed for smartphone technology to develop radiation detectors.
2016-09-2901 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesAt the Board of Trustees’ September meeting, Chancellor James B. Milliken asserted that this academic year, CUNY “will collaborate as never before, both internally and outside the University,” a key goal of a “connected CUNY” that is a theme and aim of the University’s new Master Plan. The Chancellor expressed optimism about the year ahead, […]
2016-09-2604 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsBad Test Taker? Good NewsSince 1963, U.S. students have been “very bad at tests and very good at life,” Fareed Zakaria says, noting that during the same period of time the United States has “dominated the world of science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic growth.” The U.S. tradition of students receiving “a broad general education that prepares you not for your first job, but for your sixth job” accounts for U.S. dominance, the CNN host and author of In Defense of a Liberal Education tells the Graduate Center.
2016-09-1351 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsWhy You Wanted Your MTVIn this message-oversatuartion era, marketers have to “pick an audience and superserve them,” says branding guru Alan Goodman, who teaches a marketing master class at Macaulay Honors College. At MTV, where he developed the logo and the iconic animation IDs, Goodman says he saw the network as more than just a music video channel, and identified the audience as young people and proposed to reach them by offering programs that would annoy their parents. The campaign for Nickelodeon, he says, took the kids’ network from the lowest-rated basic cable network to the highest in nine months without changing programming. One tool h...
2016-09-1258 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY Podcasts#ThePeople Raise Their VoiceHashtag politics gives people who don’t have big money to donate to candidates a way to compete with big donors, or so says social media guru Alan Rosenblatt in a talk at Baruch. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter aggregate conversation and opinion, creating “powerful social capital” to compete with financial capital, Rosenblatt says. The hashtag has made it easier for likeminded people to affiliate across physical distances and interact, says assistant professor Katherine Behar, who noted that this presidential race has been called the first social media election. “One thing we are seeing as never before,” Behar says,” “is the strange sight of news m...
2016-09-0946 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsWhat’s a Bitcoin?The cyber currency created in 2009 as “a plaything for hackers,” will be used by governments by 2023 and consumers by 2027 by some estimates, Nathaniel Popper, author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and theInside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, tells a Baruch audience. The digital dough wasn’t worth anything until 2011, adds Popper, when it was adopted by users of the now defunct Silk Road website — to buy and sell heroin and marijuana without the transactions being trackable. Bitcoins, which exist as entries on a digital ledger, had an exchange rate value of more than $500 in September 2016. “Most of the gen...
2016-09-0830 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesThe University's Board of Trustees approved collective bargaining agreements with its six unions on June 27, including contracts with the Professional Staff Congress and District Council 37 providing 10.41% in compounded wage increases with retroactive pay dating to contract expirations more than six years ago. Chancellor James B. Milliken expressed gratitude to union leaders and his senior staff for their focus on finding "common ground" in contract talks. "We are presenting to our Trustees what I believe are fair agreements to our faculty and staff — agreements that they deserve after having gone far too long without contracts," the Chancellor said at the Board's me...
2016-06-2705 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsU.N. Chief to Youth: “Rise Up”Young people can agitate against injustice better than the leader of the United Nations can, or so he says. “I as secretary-general have constraints sometimes, political constraints,” Ban Ki-moon tells his audience at Lehman College, which was the U.N.’s home for five months in 1946. “But young people, you don’t have a limit,” Ban says. “You just raise your voice. We need you rise up for civil rights, for social justice, for equal opportunity and fair play here in the United States and beyond.”
2016-04-1132 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesDuring the March meeting of the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Milliken provided an update on state budget negotiations and said there must be no cut to CUNY’s budget. “As we continue to work with state leaders on the budget, we will not lose sight of the goal of continuing to provide the highest quality, affordable education to those students who, in so many instances, prove they can do the most with it…The investments that the taxpayers have made in CUNY continue to provide enormous returns as our colleges and leaders create new programs and new opportunities for our studen...
2016-03-2108 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsHello Young WritersColum McCann’s advice to aspiring writers? Write. The Hunter College creative writing MFA professor reads “A Letter to a Young Writer” and his short story “What Time Is It Where You Are” at the Writing Center. Going against the common advice to write what you know, McCann urges young writers to “write toward that which you want to know. Better still, write toward that which you don’t know.”
2016-03-2124 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsNovelizing NaplesWho is the Neapolitan novelist writing as Elena Ferrante? The world doesn’t know, yet the world has taken notice of such books as The Days of Abandonment and The Story of the Lost Child, the final story of her (or his?) Neapolitan quartet, which place Naples at the center of the universe. Ferrante’s translator Ann Goldstein and publisher Kent Carroll join The Graduate Center’s Giancarlo Lombardi and Bettina Lerner at Proshansky Auditorium to talk about Ferrante’s work, which one critic calls a social tapestry with an underlying feminist sensibility that explores the struggles and contradictions faced by women...
2016-03-2152 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsYou Can’t Make This Stuff Up (But He Can)Donald Trump is the only pol “who screws up and his poll numbers go up,” says Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, and he seems willing to say anything. “It’s funny how when you’re president of the United States,” says Politico chief political correspondent and Brooklyn College alum Glenn Thrush, that “stuff you say has a tendency to actually happen.” The Trump beat reporters, in conversation with Peter Beinart at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, describe a Trump rally as “the angriest bar mitzvah you’ve ever been to.”
2016-03-1658 minCUNY Lecture Series – CUNY PodcastsThe Sugar Wasn’t SweetThey could starve in India or work like slaves on the sugarcane plantations of British Guiana; that was the choice for thousands of Indians who left home from 1838-1917. One was journalist Gaiutra Bahadur’s great-grandmother Sajuria, who, pregnant and alone, immigrated in 1903. Bahadur seeks her story in Coolie Woman: An Odyssey of Indenture. Indenture provided cheap labor after Britain abolished slavery, and the indentured weren’t treated much better than slaves. Women had it worse, as victims of domestic violence. The abolition of indenture was “the first significant victory” for Indian nationalism, Bahadur tells a LaGuardia Community College audience.
2016-03-1452 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesIn his report to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Milliken commented on several aspects of the 2016 Executive Budget including CUNY’s role in a plan to offer college-level instruction in state prisons and a renewed effort to pass a state DREAM Act. The Chancellor also noted that CUNY’s online bachelor’s degree program at the School of Professional Studies and CUNY School of Law had recently received national recognition. Regarding proposed shifts in state funding, Chancellor Milliken said: “We will not lose sight of the real interests at stake, the education and the futures of the over 500,000 students served everyday...
2016-01-2508 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsA Privileged ExperienceWhat makes us special? “Being a public university in New York with a majority population of students of color gives CUNY a very, very special mission in the context of American life, something that most other universities do not share,” says Zujaja Tauqeer, who started at Brooklyn College and Macaulay Honors College, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, England, and is now at Harvard Medical School. “In the grand scheme of American life, it is very unique...What a privileged experience it is to be a New Yorker and go to a university with the kind of student population we have.”
2015-11-1814 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor Praises Expansion of ASAP and CUNY StartChancellor Milliken restated his commitment to obtaining a fair contract for faculty and staff. The Chancellor also announced $20 million in performance funds from the state budget that will be allocated for new academic initiatives being developed by the colleges. In addition, the Chancellor said city funding that will allow a significant expansion of CUNY’s successful programs, ASAP and CUNY START, and $17 million in merit scholarships for students.
2015-10-0112 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesIn his June report to the CUNY Board of Trustees, Chancellor James B. Milliken remarked on commencements held across the University and shared highlights from a reception for over 300 TheDream.US scholarship winners. Chancellor Milliken provided an update on both the City and State budgets and their impact on the University including major investments in the ASAP program, funding for scholarships and assistance for senior colleges to implement performance improvement plans. The Chancellor also reported that New York State adopted a new sexual assault law championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and supported by the University.
2015-06-2911 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsUnderstanding DiversityBrooklyn Borough President Eric Adams urged Brooklyn College graduates to explore the world in all its forms. “Go visit a mosque, or synagogue, or Buddhist temple,” said Adams, who served in the NYPD for 22 years and holds a B.A. from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “Understand how diversity helps us to develop our full personhood and become great people.”
2015-06-2302 minScience – CUNY PodcastsJohn O’Keefe on Inner Workings of the BrainNobel Laureate and City College alum John O’Keefe traces historic findings on the hippocampus and human memory to his recent research on the brain’s cognitive map. O’Keefe, along with two other scientists, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an inner GPS in the brain that helps navigate surroundings. His engaging, and often humorous, discussion marked the inaugural Professor Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture at City College.
2015-06-1252 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsOn the Selma MarchStephen Sommerstein covered the historic 1965 march for voting rights as a student photographer for the City College newspaper. Fifty years later, his evocative photographs are on exhibit at the New York Historical Society and those five days in Alabama are still vivid in his memory.
2015-05-0629 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesChancellor James B. Milliken apprised the Trustees on President Barak Obama’s visit to Lehman College to launch the “My Brother’s Keeper’s Alliance," a non-profit group focused on improving opportunities for young black and Latino men. Chancellor Milliken also discussed the success of the 13th annual Citizenship NOW! Call-In and a reception honoring more than 200 CUNY students who were awarded TheDream.US scholarship. In addition, the Chancellor summarized the State budget, which includes increased funding for various programs and initiatives.
2015-05-0407 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsCommittee on Student Affairs and Special ProgramsStanding committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, April 6, 2015.
2015-04-0631 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesIn his March report to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor James B. Milliken remarked on ASAP’s national recognition, new support for STEM programs, and the need to remain competitive in retaining talented faculty and staff. Chancellor Milliken reiterated that his top priority remains the resolution of collective bargaining agreements to recognize the commitment of faculty and staff. The Chancellor said: “If CUNY is to attract and retain top talent, we need an agreement with appropriate salary and benefits.” Chancellor Milliken added that the University’s dedicated adjunct faculty deserves recognition and long overdue raises for providing “a critical component to our abi...
2015-03-0223 minThe Chancellor’s Report – CUNY PodcastsChancellor’s Report to the Board of TrusteesIn his January report to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor James B. Milliken remarked on President Barack Obama’s recognition of CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) as part of Obama’s focus on community college accessibility. “The President cited ASAP as a model program for moving students quickly and successfully to graduation, a program that other community colleges across the country should emulate,” the Chancellor said. He expressed confidence that CUNY will show “steady improvement thanks in part to the mayor’s investment in ASAP and in STEM programs.” He also summarized the governor’s executive budget, which includes inc...
2015-01-2611 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsSagrada Família Exhibit Offers Rare Look at a MasterpieceCCNY's Spitzer School of Architecture hosts an unprecedented exhibition on Antoni Gaudí's "unfinished masterpiece" — Sagrada Família, the basílica in Barcelona that generations of architects and builders have continued since Gaudí's death in 1926. George Ranalli, dean of the architecture school, talks about the world's longest-running construction project and how he brought to New York this rare collection of original drawings, plaster casts and other architectural artifacts that have never been out of Spain.
2015-01-2619 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsChancellor Talks Student Success, Jobs on NY1In a NY1 interview with Sam Roberts on The New York Times Close Up, Chancellor James Milliken discussed CUNY's plans to expand programs that boost student success. Success, he noted, includes graduating with a two-year degree: "There are great opportunities for high-paying jobs for two-year graduates," he said, noting that to meet the needs of the city's tech industry CUNY should be offering more "short courses, certificates or two-year degrees in programs teaching software development, coding and gaming. There's a big market out there."
2014-11-2607 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsJohn O’Keefe’s JourneyJohn O’Keefe (City College, 1963) describes his discovery of the brain’s “internal GPS,” which won him a 2014 Nobel Prize, and discusses his formative years as a CUNY undergraduate. The son of Irish immigrants, born in Harlem and raised in the South Bronx, he transferred to CUNY from a private college that he had attended at night while working to support himself during the day. But at CUNY, he could afford the day program with far less time devoted to outside work. Deeply curious, O’Keefe explored philosophy and film courses, among others, graduating with more than 40 credits beyond the requiremen...
2014-11-2025 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsDreams for a Cuban Free PressCuban dissident Yoani Sánchez gained international fame for her eloquent and outspoken opinions on Cuba in her blog, Generación Y, translated into 20 languages. In her visit to City College in March, Sánchez praised blogs and social media as “vital” journalistic tools, and described her dreams for a free press in her country: “In this future Cuba, I expect that words will be more common and more powerful than military uniforms, that information will be more common than ideology.” City College professor Carlos Riobó, chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures, was moderator for the event and Baruch College professor of...
2013-04-1713 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsRosa Parks’ “Rebellious Life”There’s a myth about Rosa Parks - a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement who refused to give her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus to a white passenger. The myth is that Parks was a quiet, humble woman until that historic moment. But, in the revealing new book, “The Rebellious Life Mrs. Rosa Parks,” Brooklyn College political science professor Jeanne Theoharis documents more than a decade of activism leading up to her stand against segregation on Dec. 1, 1955. Perpetuating the myth of a “meek and tired" Parks, argues Theoharis, erases the resistance she faced and fails to recogniz...
2013-03-0620 minNewsmakers – CUNY PodcastsKofi Annan’s Global LegacyKofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General, used his post as a “bully pulpit” to draw world attention to issues such as human rights, poverty and child soldiers, says Jean E. Krasno, a political science lecturer at City College, who led a six-year project to organize and publish Annan’s collected papers. Krasno sees the historic papers as crucial to documenting Annan’s legacy and leadership style as he navigated international relations in the post-Cold War era.
2013-02-0515 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsOptimism in Global Economy DropsJohn Elliott, dean of Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Zicklin’s Saxe Professor of Finance, look at results of the 2011 second-quarter “Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,” compiled by Financial Executives International and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Optimism in the global economy dropped among CFOs, and executives are extending forecasts for the start of a U.S. economic recovery by more than a year, to the second half of 2012 or beyond. The survey for the quarter was conducted just as U.S. debt-ceiling discussions were taking place, and before Standard & Poor's announced its decision to reduce...
2011-08-3009 minScience – CUNY PodcastsIs It Superman? No, It’s 2100By the end of the century, Michio Kaku sees a world in which humans will have x-ray vision, and micromachines — smaller than the period at the end of this sentence — will perform surgery. “Your computerized toilet will be able to analyze proteins emitted from a colony of cancer cells from excretions,” says Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and professor of physics at City College. Kaku’s latest book, “Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100,” predicts a future in which nearly everything we touch, including our eyeglasses, will be connected to t...
2011-04-1131 minScience – CUNY PodcastsWhite House Honors for John Jay ProfessorIn a White House ceremony earlier this year, Anthony Carpi, professor of Environmental Toxicology at John Jay College, was recognized with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring — the most prestigious honor in his field. “It was an absolute thrill to see the program that we had initiated become so effective and to be recognized on a national level,” says Carpi, who was nominated by the college and selected by the National Science Foundation for his work in creating PRISM. The undergraduate research initiative creates opportunities for forensic science students to engage in faculty-mentored research projects. It was...
2011-03-1809 minScience – CUNY PodcastsDevelopment Heats Up the EarthHuman population growth has long been linked to global warming, but according to Deborah Balk its impact may be overemphasized. “Future population growth does have a role,” says Balk, the associate director of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and professor at Baruch College School of Public Affairs. “But climate change is mainly driven by economic productivity.” In her lecture entitled “The Rising Tide and Climate Change in Our Increasingly Urban World,” part of the Serving Science Cafe Series, Balk explains that the fertility rate actually decreases as an area industrializes and continues to develop. “And it’s that development that will, in fa...
2011-02-1545 minScience – CUNY PodcastsEvolution’s LimitsIs Evolution Over? William Bialek, the Graduate Center’s Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics, argues that evolution has pushed living systems to operate at the limits of what the laws of physics allow. “There are many places,” Bialek says, “where organisms have been pushed to, basically, an endpoint of evolution.” In a lecture at the Graduate Center, Bialek said that “as long as the world you live in doesn’t change, you can’t do better than to count every photon or every molecule, but when it comes to vital functions it seems that things have been pushed as far as they can go.”...
2011-01-111h 01Science – CUNY PodcastsBirds, Dolphins and MimicryThe ability to learn and mimic vocal sounds is rare in nature but found in certain birds and in dolphins says Diana Reiss, professor of psychology at Hunter College. “There’s been a lot of anecdotal reporting over the years that dolphins are highly mimetic,” says Reiss, an expert on dolphin cognition. City College associate professor of biology, Ofer Tchernichovski, who studies brains and vocal learning in birds, says birds, which are capable of vocal learning, even “dedicate” part of their brain to produce and learn bird songs. In a lecture, “Bird Culture and Dolphin Intelligence: How we learn from animal behav...
2010-12-2847 minScience – CUNY PodcastsInside the World of Human Guinea PigsSince 1980, when Phase 1 drug tests were banned in the United States, the pharmaceutical industry has relied on medical volunteers to participate in safety trials of new drugs. In his recently published book, “The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects,” Robert Abadie, an anthropologist and a visiting scholar in the health sciences program at the Graduate Center, examines this subculture of paid “volunteers.” “Most of these guys have 50 to 100 trials over the course of five to ten years,” says Abadie, who spent 18 months living among some of them in youth hostels and group houses in Philadelphia...
2010-10-0612 minScience – CUNY PodcastsFeminine ScienceInstead of debating why science and technology remain male-dominated fields, Julie Des Jardins chose to explore the personal and professional lives of female scientists to reveal how they were able to make enormous scientific contributions. "The reason she discovered radium was because she was wanted to find a cure for cancer -- for humanity," said Des Jardins, referring to physicist Marie Curie, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. "It was her maternal sense that made her such a good scientist," said Des Jardins, author of "The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science," which views...
2010-04-0744 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsGitmo Detainees May Come to N.Y. CourtWith the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, the Justice Department is evaluating the cases of the remaining 241 detainees, and there are reports some may end up being tried on U.S. soil, perhaps in Manhattan Federal Court. Prof. Joseph King sees that as a strong possibility. "It's the logical place," he says. "The Southern District (court) has been the venue in the past for trials like this ... The U.S. Marshal's office, Police Department and the Bureau of Prisons are all used to it. It's been the leading federal prosecution district for any number of cases."
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2009-04-2807 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsCounter Terrorism Debate Goes OnDid Bush era anti-terrorism policies prevent another 9/11-style terror attack, as former Vice President Dick Chaney has claimed? President Obama has strongly rejected the Chaney claim, saying the policies did damage by increasing anti-American sentiments. Prof. Joseph Kings agrees. "The Bush administration failed to move forward with a lot of what they were doing," said Prof. King. "If they could say they processed all of the detainees-and found some guilty or not guilty by a military court-than we would be in a much better position in the eyes of the world."
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2009-04-0700 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsUnderstanding the Federal Stimulus PackageThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business and Terrence Martell, Zicklin's Saxe Professor of Finance and International Business. The discussion weighs the merits of the proposed stimulus package, particularly the economic effects of individual and business tax credits. The stimulus package includes significant funding for infrastructure investment, which Professor Martell calls a "fundamentally good idea.†Dean Elliott suggests that the package's proposed protectionist features—an insistence that the materials used in constructing new infrastructure be produced in the United States—may cause other nations to bar the use of U.S. imports. Bo...
2009-03-2300 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsCFOs on Technology SpendingThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business and Terrence Martell, Zicklin's Saxe Professor of Finance and International Business in Zicklin. The discussion starts with the results of the third quarter 2008 "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey," which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including expenditures in both hiring and technology. The survey results are available on Baruch College's website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/.
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2009-03-2300 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsPresident-elect Barack Obama and National SecurityIn his first post-election interview, Barack Obama told CBS's "60 Minutes" why national security will be among his top priorities during this transitional time and in the early months of his presidency. Prof. Joseph King explains why this is essential for the safety of the country. "It's reassuring to see that he has taken national security as a serious issue and understands that in this period of flux our enemies could take it as an opening." Prof. King also weighs in on the new administration's pick for the head of the Homeland Security Department, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano.
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2008-12-0400 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsMarket Predictions – The $700 Billion BailoutThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business and Terrence Martell, Saxe Professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with an exploration of the newly approved Troubled Asset Relief Program (T.A.R.P.) that will provide the Treasury Secretary $700 billion to buy troubled assets from failing financial institutions, and continues into a larger economic analysis including restoring depositor confidence in banks, the potential government gains from T.A.R.P., and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (F.D.I.C.) new...
2008-10-2100 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsNew 9/11 Study Gives Feds Mixed GradesA new study headed by the chairs of the 9/11 Commission has given the federal government a "D" for its efforts in preventing the spread of weapons and protecting the homeland. The same report awarded a B minus, its highest mark, for government efforts to combat chemical weapons. Prof. Joseph King explains the discrepancy. "I credit that panel -- it's a bipartisan commission -- and they have come up with any number of recommendations, most of which the government hasn't adopted yet."
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2008-10-0600 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsHomeland Security and the Presidential RaceAs the country marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an historic presidential race is rounding the final stretch. Was the issue of homeland security given the attention it deserved by Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain in their battle for the White House? "No," says Prof. Joseph King. "I don't think either candidate has addressed it other than in vague generalities." Prof. King notes that neither campaign has discussed domestic security, including the candidates' future plans for the Department of Homeland Security, in any detail: "There is a lack of specificity in both camps."
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2008-09-1700 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsCFOs on Accounting StandardsThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe Professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the second quarter 2008 "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey," which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including economic confidence, market predictability, soaring oil prices and the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards in the US. The survey results are available on Baruch College's website...
2008-09-1200 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsTop Security Posts Still VacantTwo top White House counterterrorism posts continue to go unfilled following Frances Townsend's resignation in January as assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. While Prof. Joseph King calls this a "terrible situation," he also says he's not surprised. "This is basically a lame duck administration and it's hard to get people to come (to serve) when they know they have an expiration date of January 2008."
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2008-04-2800 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsNYPD Beefs Up Security for PopePope Benedict's visit to New York prompted the NYPD to increase security throughout the city, with measures that ranged from inspection checkpoints to police divers with underwater counter-terrorism devices. The extraordinary measures were very much needed, said Prof. Joseph King. "The police, both in D.C. and New York were right because he is such a high-risk target," says King and points out he is also the head of Vatican City, an independent state. "As head of state, the minute he lands on U.S. soil he's the problem of the Secret Service."
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2008-04-1700 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsAmtrak Steps Up SecurityAmtrak announced that passengers will have to submit to random screenings of carry-on bags in a major security push. Professor Joseph King sees this latest measure as a good thing. "There is a benefit, no question. A presence of heavily armed police officers with dogs does give a very vivid portrayal of security to people." Prof. King also talks about counterfeit goods and why buying a knock-off handbag on Canal Street isn't as harmless as it seems.
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2008-03-1900 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsNext Security Step in SubwaysThe first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in this country began in New York City's subways this March. Called Operation Torch, it involves roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs, patrolling the subways on a daily basis. Prof. Joseph King sees this new measure as a plus. "It is an additional layer of security...part of the overall philosophy that a random pattern (of searches) can have an effect as a deterrent."
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2008-03-1000 minCity Safe – CUNY PodcastsNew Enemy: ComplacencyHomeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told an interviewer for BBC radio that he felt a "certain sense of complacency" about terrorism in the United States and warned that, although we have not suffered a major attack since 9/11, we need to stay ever vigilant. Professor Joseph King is also concerned. "People's memories fade...If there are no attacks, people forget. The same with the newspapers...Stories about terrorism in the world are buried on page 10."
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2008-02-1300 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsCFOs on 2008 Economic WorriesThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe Professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the fourth quarter 2007 "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,†which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including economic confidence, recession fears, crisis in the credit industry, and whether public companies should provide quarterly earnings guidance. The survey results are available on Baruch College's website at:
2008-02-0400 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsCFOs on Credit CrisisThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the third quarter 2007 "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,†which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including economic confidence, the federal rate cut, and the performance of SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. The survey results are available on Baruch College's website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu...
2007-10-2500 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsCFOs on "Smart Sourcing"The Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the second quarter 2007 "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,†which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including interest rates, outsourcing, and international accounting standards. The survey results are available on Baruch College's website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/.
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2007-07-1100 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsCFOs More Concerned About Recession Than InflationThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the first quarter 2007 "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,†which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis. The survey results are available on Baruch College's website at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/.
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2007-04-0400 minBaruch Business Report – CUNY PodcastsMarket Predictions – The Relative Risks of Recession Versus Inflation – The CFOThe Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch's Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the fourth quarter "Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,†which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis. Elliott and Martell discuss concerns about recession and interest rates, the Federal Reserve's "watch and see" approach, the impact of the falling U.S. dollar, healthcare costs, technology spending, allo...
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